vCenter – Management Ports
KB ID 0001324 Problem A while ago my colleague was struggling to get into a vCenter server. Normal https (TCP 443) wasn’t letting him in, I knew you could manage the appliance directly, (but I couldn’t remember the port number!) He knew there was an alternate port number, but we didn’t know what it was. Solution vCenter Appliance (Direct) Management Port TCP: 5480 i.e. https://{ip-or-host-name}:5480 vCenter /...
Cant login to vCenter after upgrade to 5.1
Error 29155. Identity source discovery error KB ID 0000679 Problem Note: I’ve had the same problem on a freshly installed vCenter 5.1 as well. I upgraded my Virtual Center from 5.0 to 5.1 yesterday, and post upgrade I could no longer login, it would tell me “Unknown user or bad password”. During the upgrade I did see this error, but after that the install completed successfully. Error 29155.Identity source discovery...
vSphere – Adding Domain Users/Groups to vCenter
KB ID 0001063 Problem Note: This article is for vSphere 6, for vSphere 7 and vSphere 8 see the following article. vCenter Domain Authentication Despite my best efforts to keep working with the VMware VI client, my recent move to a MAC has finally forced me to start using the web client. So when I rebuilt my vCenter this week, I went out of my way to use that. Note: If you have your vCenter and Platform Services Controller (PSC)...